Cumilla, Sept 23 (UNB) – A schoolgirl reportedly committed suicide by hanging herself with her scarf from the ceiling of her room at Mohalaxmipara village in Brahmanpara Upazila on Sunday.
The deceased was identified as Param Mani, 14, daughter of expatriate Shafiqul Islam and class-IX student of Mohalaxmipara Sharif High School of the village.
Family sources said they found Param Moni hanging from the ceiling of her room around 12pm and started screaming out.
Hearing the hue and cry from the house, next-door-neighbors rushed in and recovered the body and took it to Brahmanpara Health Complex where on-duty doctors 6declared her dead.
The body was later shifted to Cumilla Medical College Hospital for autopsy, confirmed SI Saifuzzaman of Brahmanpara Police station. “The body bore the familiar injury marks around the throat, suspecting it as hanging.”
A case was filed in this connection, Saifuzzaman added.